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These and other old-country customs costumes morphed and melded among immigrant populations in North America, gradually overwhelming the disdain for such celebrations among the Puritans and other early arrivals. Concerted efforts were made by immigrant leaders and societies to hold onto and even to rejuvenate old customs as a means of maintaining ethnic distinctiveness. Folk revelry in the form of pranks, music, costumes and so on proved far more adaptable to the New World than folk-religious traditions did.

These and other old-country customs costumes morphed and melded among immigrant populations in North America, gradually overwhelming the disdain for such celebrations among the Puritans and other early arrivals. Concerted efforts were made by immigrant leaders and societies to hold onto and even to rejuvenate old customs as a means of maintaining ethnic distinctiveness. Folk revelry in the form of pranks, music, costumes and so on proved far more adaptable to the New World than folk-religious traditions did.

And it doesn''t matter if anything is left over after Halloween, because Gabriel can sell it during the rest of for the year. "Except for nurse''s hats," he said. "Nobody ever buys those things during the year."The real doctors and nurses that make up his clientele the rest of the year are apparently amused by the trend, even its more risque variations."In a way, it''s kind of flattering," Gabriel said. A man was removed from a United Airlines flight at Palm Beach International Airport after his luggage triggered an explosives detector.

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